Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's just the relatively benign municipal solid waste. Each year American industries belch, pump and dump more than 2.5 billion lbs. of really nasty stuff--like lead compounds, chromium, ammonia and organic solvents--into the air, water and ground. That's about 400 Olympic poolfuls of toxic waste...
...from here on in have been replaced with pseudo-usernames). What did "minitrof" have to ytalk about with "emclurm" yesterday afternoon? They were chatting for an awfully long time. Does "dewed" have a secret crush on "prinik"? Or is such repeated use of the finger command signify something more benign...
...begins and ends with explicit statements acknowledging that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not associated with militant groups. In the body of his work, Emerson presents direct recordings--the authenticity of which have never been disputed--of Islamic fundamentalists meeting on American soil, often under the guise of benign humanitarian or cultural banners, celebrating the use of violence against Westerners...
...barefoot, as if to accentuate their delicacy and femininity in a dismal bleak world, and also their child-like helplessness in Kastchei's realm. Yet when the princesses are alone, they joke and socialize; true to the human element, they retain hope, never do the characters give in to benign acceptance of their situation's injustice. In the end, when Ivan and the Firebird triumph the audience experiences the captives' exhilaration as they become liberated from Kastchei's oppression and see color for first time...
...seem a long way from the nice, uplifting sort of near-death experience that religious writers like to effuse about. But perhaps the simple truth is that near death, you have visions of what most preoccupies you in life. I am a skeptic to whom the idea that a benign God created us and watches over us is somewhere between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured...